The essay "The Game of School" is definitely something I could relate to in many aspects. Public school itself is designed to educate the average student and sometime if you fall above or below that, you sometimes suffer in school if you are not moved into different classes. I was put into honors and AP classes, which avoided busy work. We would be having debates and writing essays and reading, rather than my other friends in regular classes who were defining vocabulary words once a week. I somewhat feel that I had a different education in upper level classes because I couldn't necessarily play "the game". It was very hard to work around homework and not actually do it because it had meaning and purpose. If you didn't read ahead then you wouldn't be able to follow what the class would be doing the next day. Unlike my classes, the regular class would teach you everyday, chapter by chapter and you would repetitively define words or answer questions. Rather than independently creating ideas, students would just look up the answers on a common website. I feel the idea of school being a "game" is a very evident theory and can most definitely be seen throughout many schools in the United States.